My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

The Secret Life of Words (2005)

This beautiful and quiet film explores the love story between a woman with great inner pain nursing a man with great outer pain. The always subtle and inspiring Sarah Polley plays Hannah who volunteers to take care of a burn victim at a closed down oil rig to escape a forced vacation. Tim Robbins, as the patient, gives a tender performance that’s a pleasure to watch (my biggest criticism is that he’s hard to hear sometimes). This artfully written and directed film by Isabel Coixet feels like a poem at times. But the story is actually quite dramatic and clearly defined. The more I ponder this film the more it grows on me.  Grade: A-
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)